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Virtual Private Cloud

Deliver an industry- leading private cloud offering powered by Dell technologies.

Dell has partnered with Six Degrees Group (6DG), a UK-based enterprise cloud and managed services provider, to deliver an industry-leading private cloud offering powered by Dell technologies.

Why should I choose a private cloud? A virtual private cloud is an ideal best-of-both worlds for customers looking for the Security built in flexibility, elasticity and scalability of public cloud but with the security and resilience The platform itself, unlike - of private cloud. If you are looking to move to an opex model for sourcing your based public clouds, is a “locked down” compute and storage needs, but wish to retain your own deployment of software environment. External parties cannot delivered securely, then a Virtual Private Cloud is the ideal solution. simply access it via a browser logon; it is accessible only by the individual Finally, if you have a level of seasonality built into your business model and need to customers themselves who, in turn, can be able to flex and burst resources, you will be able to expand and contract your only access their own environment. Our deployment dynamically thanks to the economies of scale and capacity upside cloud pods are located within our own offered by a Virtual Private Cloud deployment. datacenters, giving us complete “gate-to- rack” control of the physical environment, How would this be deployed? and we connect to your offices using our The Virtual Private Cloud uses Dell PowerEdge blade servers for compute and own wide area network. EqualLogic SAN for storage to build a highly resilient and scalable Infrastructure as a Virtual Private Cloud Private Cloud Architecture Service (IaaS) platform. In a multi-tenant set-up, the enabling hardware is shared by all Resilience built in customers. All deployments 6DG Backbone Managed clouds are configured in 6DG backbone are configured as “virtual high availability mode as standard private clouds” meaning that Internet / private network for maximum resilience at the virtual your unique deployment is machine level. In addition, all our clouds private, secure, firewalled are backed up on a secondary zone in a Private cloud Backup & replication and load balanced. geographically diverse region. This means Virtual private cloud Backup & replication Management that, in the unlikely event of a major

Firewall Firewall Servers 6DG cloud platform catastrophe in our primary datacenter, your information is safely stored in Network Additional resources on 6DG Hybrid cloud Load Load cloud platform a secondary facility from where it StStoragoragee balancer balancer Hybrid cloud can be restored.

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How are our solutions different? Why Dell and Six Degrees We are experienced in building virtual private clouds to meet specific regulatory Group? or compliance requirements and are ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS certified. In addition, The partnership between Dell and we offer government secure cloud platforms secured to CESG IL2 or IL3 6DG combines two best-in-class accreditation. These highly secure environments are available to both public providers. Dell is one of the world’s or private sector customers. leading technology companies and provides the enabling technologies We also design, build, deploy and support application environments and that power our clouds. 6DG owns unified communications set-ups. In addition, we offer SIP trunking and other voice and operates its own datacenters, services as well as converged networks. data network, voice switches and cloud platforms. Together,

Dell Cloud Virtual we create and deliver converged Private Cloud Colocation On-Demand Private Cloud managed services to some of the most demanding enterprise Tenancy Single-tenant Multi-tenant Multi-tenant Single-tenant customers around, tailored to your unique needs and designed Equipment Owned Rented Rented Rented ownership with business outcomes and high performance in mind. Customer Managed Managed Management Self service managed services services What other services are Minimum 12 months 1 month 12 months 36 months available? commitment The below table shows the key Pay-as-you-go/ Contractual Fixed contract Fixed contract Fixed contract benefits of our Virtual Private fixed Cloud offering alongside our other Billing Monthly Hourly Monthly Monthly products to help you decide which increments best meets your requirements. Resilience Optional extra No Backup included Optional extra

Cloud burst A major benefit of is its inherent elasticity. Capacity can be turned For more information about any of up when required – e.g. for a marketing campaign or short-term project – and turned our service offerings, please visit down when no longer needed. Managed cloud environments can be engineered with Dell.com/services or contact your scalability in mind with the managed service including flexing compute resource. Dell representative.

Managed back-up This is a process whereby an organisation regularly (typically daily or twice daily) backs up their data to a environment. Snapshots are provided to access historical data. There are also options for long-term archiving. Managed backup can also be delivered as part of a full Disaster Recovery solution where we also have reserved compute ready to be deployed.

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